Oswego County, NY - A 21-year-old Tennessee man accused of traveling to Oswego to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he met on the Internet has admitted he raped the girl.

Submitted photoTimothy J. McGaha

Timothy T.J. McGaha, of Dandridge, Tenn., has pleaded guilty to second-degree rape, a felony, in Oswego County Court.

The FBI and Oswego city police arrested McGaha on Oct. 12. Federal agents accused him of traveling to Oswego to have sex with the 14-year-old.

City police filed the rape charge; the FBI charged him with interstate travel for sex with a minor, a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison.

By pleading guilty, McGaha admitted raping the girl Sept. 28 at the Econo Lodge in Oswego. A person who is 18 or older and has sexual intercourse with a person younger than 15 is guilty of rape, according to state law.

McGaha met the girl on the Internet site, MyYearbook.com, city police have said.

Court papers show McGaha used the screen name Pretty Boy T to chat online with the 14-year-old girl last year. At first, he asked her to be his friend. A couple of months went by and the two exchanged phone numbers. She promised to have sex with him. And he promised to drive from Tennessee on Sept. 28.

McGaha arranged to meet the girl the night of the Mexico High School dance, according to court papers.

The girl explained to an Oswego city police officer on Oct. 6 that she told her mother she was going to the dance, "but I knew I was going to hang out with T.J."